EP2944133A1 - Équipement utilisateur et procédé pour réguler la puissance de transmissions de liaison montante - Google Patents

Équipement utilisateur et procédé pour réguler la puissance de transmissions de liaison montante

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EP2944133A1
EP2944133A1 EP13741882.8A EP13741882A EP2944133A1 EP 2944133 A1 EP2944133 A1 EP 2944133A1 EP 13741882 A EP13741882 A EP 13741882A EP 2944133 A1 EP2944133 A1 EP 2944133A1
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uplink transmission
transmission power
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Eliane SEMAAN
David Hammarwall
Muhammad Imadur Rahman
Xinghua SONG
Shaohua Li
Erik Dahlman
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/04—TPC
    • H04W52/06—TPC algorithms
    • H04W52/14—Separate analysis of uplink or downlink
    • H04W52/146—Uplink power control
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/04—TPC
    • H04W52/30—TPC using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power
    • H04W52/34—TPC management, i.e. sharing limited amount of power among users or channels or data types, e.g. cell loading
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/04—TPC
    • H04W52/30—TPC using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power
    • H04W52/36—TPC using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
    • H04W52/365—Power headroom reporting
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/04—TPC
    • H04W52/30—TPC using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power
    • H04W52/36—TPC using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
    • H04W52/367—Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range

Definitions

  • the present disclosure relates to power control of uplink transmissions and in particular to power control of uplink transmissions when the user
  • Equipment UE is in dual connectivity mode.
  • wireless terminals also known as mobile stations and/or User Equipments, UEs communicate via a Radio Access Network, RAN, to one or more core networks.
  • the RAN covers a geographical area which is divided into cell areas, with each cell area being served by a base station, e.g. a radio base station, RBS, which in some networks may also be called, for example, a "NodeB” (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS) or "eNodeB" (Long Term Evolution, LTE).
  • a cell is a geographical area where radio coverage is provided by the radio base station equipment at a base station site. Each cell is identified by an identity within the local radio area, which is broadcast in the cell.
  • the base stations communicate over the air interface operating on radio frequencies with the UEs within range of the base stations.
  • a controller node such as a Radio Network Controller, RNC) or a Base Station Controller, BSC which supervises and coordinates various activities of the plural base stations connected thereto.
  • RNC Radio Network Controller
  • BSC Base Station Controller
  • the radio network controllers are typically connected to one or more core networks.
  • the UMTS is a third generation mobile communication system, which evolved from the second generation (2G) Global System for Mobile
  • UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network is essentially a radio access network using Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA, for UEs.
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
  • telecommunications suppliers propose and agree upon standards for third generation networks and UTRAN specifically, and investigate enhanced data rate and radio capacity.
  • the 3GPP has developed specifications for the Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network, E-UTRAN.
  • the E-UTRAN comprises the LTE and System Architecture Evolution, SAE.
  • LTE is a variant of a 3GPP radio access technology wherein the radio base station nodes are connected to a core network (via Access Gateways, or AGWs) rather than to RNC nodes.
  • the functions of an RNC node are distributed between the RBS nodes (eNodeBs in LTE) and AGWs.
  • the RAN of an LTE system has an essentially "flat" architecture comprising radio base station nodes without reporting to RNC nodes.
  • LTE uses Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing, OFDM, in the downlink and Discrete Fourier Transform, DFT,-spread OFDM in the uplink.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
  • DFT Discrete Fourier Transform
  • Figure 1 a illustrates a basic LTE downlink physical resource in terms of a time- frequency grid, where each resource element corresponds to one OFDM
  • the resource allocation in LTE is typically described in terms of resource blocks, RB, where an RB corresponds to one slot (0.5 ms) in the time domain and 12 contiguous subcarriers in the frequency domain.
  • RB resource blocks
  • a pair of two adjacent RBs in time direction (1 .0 ms) is known as a RB pair.
  • RBs are numbered in the frequency domain, starting with 0 from one end of the system bandwidth.
  • LTE downlink uses a 15 KHz sub-carrier spacing.
  • an RB corresponds to one slot (0.5 ms) in the time domain and 12 contiguous sub-carriers in the frequency domain.
  • a Resource Element, RE is then defined as one sub-carrier in the frequency domain, and the duration of one OFDM symbol in the time domain.
  • Physical layer channels in the LTE uplink are provided by the Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH; the Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH); and the Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH.
  • PUCCH transmissions are allocated specific frequency resources at the edges of the uplink bandwidth (e.g. multiples of 180 KHz in LTE depending on the system bandwidth).
  • PUCCH is mainly used by the UE to transmit control information in the uplink, only in sub- frames in which the UE has not been allocated any RBs for PUSCH transmission.
  • the control signalling may consist of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback as a response to a downlink transmission, Channel Status Reports, CSRs, scheduling requests, Channel Quality Indicators, CQIs, etc.
  • PUSCH is mainly used for data transmissions.
  • this channel is also used for data-associated control signalling (e.g. transport format indications, Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, parameters, etc.).
  • This control information is crucial for processing the uplink data and is therefore transmitted together with that data.
  • VRBs Virtual Resource Blocks
  • Physical RBs Physical RBs
  • PRBs Physical RBs
  • the actual resource allocation to a UE is made in terms of VRB pairs.
  • a VRB pair is directly mapped to a PRB pair, hence two consecutive and localised VRB are also placed as
  • the distributed VRBs are not mapped to consecutive PRBs in the frequency domain; thereby providing frequency diversity for data channel transmitted using these distributed VRBs.
  • Downlink transmissions are dynamically scheduled, e.g., in each subframe the base station transmits control information about to which terminals data is transmitted and upon which resource blocks the data is transmitted, in the current downlink subframe.
  • the control region also contains Physical Downlink Control CHannels, PDCCH and possibly also Physical HARQ Indication Channels, PHICH, carrying ACK/NACK for the uplink transmission.
  • the downlink subframe also comprises Common Reference Symbols, CRS, which are known to the receiver and used for coherent demodulation of e.g. the control information.
  • CRS Common Reference Symbols
  • FIG. 1 d shows an example uplink transmission subframe.
  • SRSs Sounding Reference Signals
  • the RSRs have time duration of a single OFDM symbol. These estimates may be used for uplink scheduling and link adaptation but also for downlink multiple antenna transmission, especially in case of Time Division Duplex, TDD, where the uplink and downlink use the same frequencies.
  • the SRSs are defined in 3GPP TS 36.21 1 "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E- UTRA); Physical channels and modulation", incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • the SRSs may be transmitted in the last symbol of a 1 ms uplink subframe.
  • the SRSs may also be transmitted in the special slot, Uplink Pilot Time Slot, UpPTS.
  • the length of UpPTS may be configured to be one or two symbols.
  • Figure 1 e shows an example 10ms radio frame for TDD, wherein in each of the two 5-slot subframes the ratio of downlink, DL, slots to UL slots is 3DL:2UL, and wherein up to eight symbols may be set aside for SRSs.
  • SRS symbols such as SRS bandwidth, SRS frequency domain position, SRS hopping pattern and SRS subframe configuration are set semi-statically as a part of Radio Resource Control, RRC, information element, as explained by 3GPP TS 36.331 "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E- UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification", incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • IE information element
  • SoundingRS-UL-Config is used to specify the uplink Sounding RS configuration for periodic and aperiodic sounding.
  • Dual connectivity is a feature defined from the UE perspective wherein the UE may simultaneously receive and transmit to at least two different network points.
  • figure 1f illustrates a dual connectivity scenario wherein a wireless terminal participates both in a connection with a macro RBS node and a Low Power Node, LPN, node.
  • Dual connectivity is one of the features that are considered for standardisation within the umbrella work of small cell
  • Dual connectivity is defined for the case when the aggregated network points operate on the same or separate frequency.
  • Each network point that the UE is aggregating may define a stand-alone cell or it may not define a stand-alone cell. It is further foreseen that from the UE perspective, the UE may apply some form of Time Division Multiplexing, TDM, scheme between the different network points that the UE is aggregating. This implies that the communication on the physical layer to and from the different aggregated network points may not be truly simultaneous.
  • TDM Time Division Multiplexing
  • Dual connectivity as a feature bears many similarities with carrier aggregation and Coordinated Multi Point, CoMP.
  • a differentiating factor is that dual connectivity is designed considering a relaxed backhaul and less stringent requirements on synchronisation requirements between the network points, and thus is in contrast to carrier aggregation and CoMP wherein tight synchronisation and a low-delay backhaul are assumed between connected network points.
  • Dual connectivity can be utilised in many ways. Two example ways, described in more detail below, are RRC diversity and Decoupled uplink (UL) and downlink (DL).
  • RRC signalling messages may be communicated with the UE via both an anchor link and a booster link. It is assumed that the RRC and the Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, protocol termination point lies in the anchor node and thus signalling messages are routed as duplicate PDCP Payload Data Units, PDUs, also via the backhaul link between anchor/macro and booster/LPN. On the UE side, duplicate PHY/MAC/RLC instances are required, as illustrated in figure 1 g, and a separate RACH procedure to obtain time
  • RRC diversity is an especially interesting feature for the transmission of handover related messages such as UE measurement reports and RRC-reconfiguration requests ("handover commands").
  • a second useful scenario of dual connectivity is decoupled UL/DL.
  • the main benefit with this feature is that it allows the UE to send UL transmission always to the point (e.g. macro RBS or LPN) with lowest pathloss at the same time as it receives DL transmission from the network point with highest received power. This is useful when the UE is operating in a heterogeneous network with a macro cell and LPNs that have relatively large difference in transmission power, as illustrated in figure 1 h.
  • the main deployment scenario studied is a scenario wherein the aggregated network nodes have a relaxed backhaul between them and the network nodes.
  • Uplink power control plays an important role in radio resource management which has been adopted in most modern communication systems. It balances the needs to maintain the link quality against the needs to minimise interference to other users of the system and to maximise the battery life of the terminal.
  • the aim of power control is to determine the average power over a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA, symbol and it is applied for both common channel and dedicated channel
  • P UE min ⁇ CMAX , P 0 + a - PL + f(f) + A w (i) + 101og 10 M) (1 ) open-loop set-point closed-loop MCS offset bandwidth factor
  • the UE calculates a basic open- loop set-point based on the path-loss estimate and an eNodeB controlled semi- static base level (P 0 ) comprising a nominal power level common for all UEs in the cell and a UE-specific offset.
  • P 0 semi- static base level
  • the eNodeB updates the dynamic adjustment relative to set-point, and the UE adjusts the transmit power upon the Transmit Power Control, TPC, commands. It is also possible to connect the power control to modulation and coding scheme used for the uplink transmission.
  • a UE operating in a dual connectivity mode needs to share its UL power between the UL links towards different nodes/eNBs that the UE
  • the UL power sharing is mainly problematic when the UE reaches its maximum allowed transmission power, typically 23 dBm.
  • the object is to obviate at least some of the problems outlined above.
  • it is an object to provide a UE and a method performed by the UE for power control of uplink transmissions, when the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode to at least a first network node and a second network node.
  • a method performed by a UE for power control of uplink transmissions when the UE is connected in dual connectivity mode to at least a first network node and a second network node.
  • the method comprises determining to perform a first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second uplink transmission to the second network node, the uplink transmissions to be performed simultaneously.
  • the method also comprises determining a respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission; and transmitting the first and the second uplink transmissions at the first and the second uplink transmission power respectively when the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power is below a maximum transmission power.
  • a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode.
  • the UE comprises a determining unit adapted for determining to perform a first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second uplink transmission to the second network node, the uplink transmissions to be performed simultaneously, and for determining a respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission.
  • the UE also comprises a transmitting unit adapted for transmitting the first and the second uplink transmissions at the first and the second uplink transmission power respectively when the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power is below a maximum transmission power.
  • the method performed by the UE and the UE performing the method may have several advantages.
  • One possible advantage is that a power limited UE may be enabled to control and share its transmission power between
  • Figure 1 a illustrates a basic LTE downlink physical resource in terms of a time-frequency grid.
  • Figure 1 b illustrates LTE downlink transmissions organised into radio frames of 10 ms, each radio frame consisting of ten equally-sized subframes.
  • Figure 1 c illustrates a downlink subframe wherein the three first OFDM symbols are reserved for control signalling.
  • Figure 1 d illustrates an example uplink transmission subframe.
  • Figure 1 e shows an example 10ms radio frame for TDD, wherein in each of the two 5-slot subframes the ratio of DL slots to UL slots is 3DL:2UL, and wherein up to eight symbols may be set aside for sounding reference signals.
  • Figure 1f illustrates a dual connectivity scenario wherein a wireless terminal participates both in a connection with a macro RBS node and an LPN node.
  • Figure 1 g illustrates a macro RBS and an LPN, wherein duplicate
  • PHY/MAC/RLC instances are required on the UE side.
  • Figure 1 h illustrates a UE operating in a heterogeneous network with a macro cell and LPNs, wherein there is a relatively large difference in transmission power.
  • Figure 2a is a flowchart of a method performed by a UE for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 2b is a flowchart of a method performed by a UE for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to still an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 3 is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4a is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4b is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to yet an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4c is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to another exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4d is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to still an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4e is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to yet an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4f is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to still another exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 5 is a block diagram of an arrangement in a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • the UE considers both the transmission power needed for transmission to the first network node and the transmission power needed for transmission to the second network node when the UE allocates transmission powers to uplink transmissions.
  • equivalents include both currently known equivalents as well as equivalents developed in the future, i.e. any elements developed that perform the same function, regardless of structure.
  • the functional blocks may include or encompass, without limitation, digital signal processor (DSP) hardware, reduced instruction set processor, hardware (e.g., digital or analogue) circuitry including but not limited to application specific integrated circuit(s) [ASIC], and/or Field Programmable Gate Array(s), FPGA(s), and (where appropriate) state machines capable of performing such functions.
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
  • a computer is generally understood to comprise one or more processors or one or more controllers, and the terms computer and processor and controller may be employed
  • processor or controller When provided by a computer or processor or controller, the functions may be provided by a single dedicated computer or processor or controller, by a single shared computer or processor or controller, or by a plurality of individual computers or processors or controllers, some of which may be shared or distributed.
  • processor or “controller” shall also be construed to refer to other hardware capable of performing such functions and/or executing software, such as the example hardware recited above.
  • node and/or “network node” may
  • nodes using any technology including, e.g., High Speed Packet Access, HSPA, LTE, CDMA2000, GSM, etc. or a mixture of technologies such as with a multi-standard radio (MSR) node (e.g. LTE/HSPA, GSM/HS/LTE,
  • MSR multi-standard radio
  • CDMA2000/LTE etc. may apply to different types of nodes e.g., base station, eNode B, Node B, relay, Base
  • BTS Transceiver Station
  • donor node serving a relay node (e.g., donor base station, donor Node B, donor eNB), supporting one or more radio access technologies.
  • relay node e.g., donor base station, donor Node B, donor eNB
  • Nodes that communicate using the air interface also have suitable radio communications circuitry.
  • the technology can additionally be considered to be embodied entirely within any form of computer-readable memory, such as solid-state memory, magnetic disk, or optical disk containing an
  • Figure 2a illustrates the method 200 comprising determining 210 to perform a first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second uplink transmission to the second network node, the uplink transmissions to be performed simultaneously.
  • the method also comprises determining 220 a respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission; and transmitting 240 the first and the second uplink transmissions at the first and the second uplink transmission power respectively when the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power is below a maximum transmission power.
  • the UE may for example receive data and control signalling from the first network node and receive only control signalling from the second network node.
  • the UE may also send control signalling to both the first and the second network node but send data in uplink only to the second network node.
  • the UE may receive both data and control signalling from both network nodes and transmit both data and control signalling to both network nodes.
  • the UE determines a first and a second uplink transmission power required for the first and the second uplink transmission respectively.
  • One example of how to determine the first and the second uplink transmission power is to calculate a power control loop according to Expression (1 ) twice, once for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and once for the second uplink transmission to the second network node.
  • Another example is receiving control information from the first network node and/or the second network node indicating a required respective transmission power.
  • the first and second uplink transmission power may be determined by open-loop or closed-loop calculations.
  • the UE may determine the first and the second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission.
  • the UE sums the two transmission power together.
  • the UE compares the sum of the first uplink transmission power and the second uplink transmission power to a maximum transmission power, for example 23 dBm. If the sum of the first uplink transmission power and the second uplink transmission power does not exceed the maximum transmission power, then the UE may transmit the first uplink transmission to the first network node at the first uplink transmission power and simultaneously transmit the second uplink transmission to the second network node at the second uplink transmission power.
  • the UE may be connected to three or more network nodes, but for simplicity, only a scenario of the UE being connected to two network nodes are described herein.
  • the method performed by the UE may have several advantages.
  • One possible advantage is that the method allows a power limited UE to control and share its transmission power between simultaneous transmissions on the same carrier, and also on separate carriers.
  • the method may comprise prioritising 250 between the first and the second uplink transmission according to a
  • the UE If the sum of the first and the second uplink transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power, the UE cannot transmit the first uplink transmission to the first network node at the first uplink transmission power and simultaneously transmit the second uplink transmission to the second network node at the second uplink transmission power. Hence, the UE may be forced to perform some sort of prioritisation between the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission. There may be a plurality of different prioritisations that the UE can perform according to the predetermined rule as will be described in more detail below. [00065] In an example, the predetermined rule indicates to the UE to prioritise the first or the second uplink transmission based on a link quality between the UE and the first and the second network node respectively.
  • the UE may for example be located relatively close to one of the network nodes and relatively far from the other. There may further be relatively many UEs being connected to one of the network nodes causing a relatively high level of interference and relatively few UEs being connected to the other network node causing a relatively low level of interference. These factors may substantially affect the link quality between the UE and the first and the second network node. Hence, there may be a relatively big difference in the link quality between the UE and one of the network nodes and the link quality between the UE and the other network node.
  • the UE may for example prioritise the transmission to the network node to which it has the best link quality in order to try to guarantee that the transmission to that network node will be received successfully.
  • the UE may transmit the transmission to that network node at the determined required transmission power, e.g. as determined using Expression (1 ).
  • the UE may e.g. either refrain from transmitting the other transmission to the other network node in order to save battery since the other transmission to the network node to which the UE has the worst link quality may perhaps not be received successfully due to the bad link quality.
  • the UE may also choose to transmit the other transmission to the network node to which the UE has the worst link quality at a transmission power corresponding to the maximum transmission power minus the transmission power required for the transmission to the network node to which it has the best link quality.
  • the UE may in another example prioritise the network node to which it has the worst link quality in order to try to guarantee that the
  • the UE may e.g. transmit the transmission to the network node to which it has the worst link quality at the determined required transmission power, e.g. as determined using Expression (1 ). The UE may then e.g. transmit the other transmission to the network node to which the UE has the best link quality at a transmission power corresponding to the maximum
  • the first uplink transmission comprises control information and the second uplink transmission comprises data, wherein the predetermined rule indicates to the UE to prioritise the uplink transmission comprising control information by transmitting the first uplink transmission at the first uplink transmission power.
  • the UE may e.g. receive data and control signalling from the first network node and receive only control signalling from the second network node.
  • the UE may also send control signalling to both the first and the second network node but send data in uplink only to the second network node.
  • the UE may receive both data and control signalling from both network nodes and transmit both data and control signalling to both network nodes.
  • the UE wants to transmit a first uplink transmission to the first network node simultaneously as the UE transmits a second uplink transmission to the second network node.
  • the first uplink transmission to the first network node comprises control information and the second uplink transmission to the second network node comprises data.
  • the predetermined rule then tells the UE to prioritise the uplink transmission
  • the second network node is enabled to inform the UE that the data was not successfully received, e.g. via HARQ ACK/NACK procedure.
  • the connection between the first network node and the UE may be lost in the worst case.
  • the UE may thus transmit the first uplink transmission comprising control information at the first uplink transmission power
  • the UE may then transmit the second uplink transmission at a transmission power of the maximum transmission power minus the first uplink transmission power.
  • the transmission power left for the second uplink transmission comprising data is the maximum transmission power minus the first uplink transmission power.
  • the UE may alternatively refrain from transmitting the second uplink transmission if the transmission power of the maximum transmission power minus the first uplink transmission power is below a first predefined threshold.
  • the threshold may be defined in a plurality of different ways. It may be received by the UE from one of the first network node or the second network node. There may be one threshold for the first network node and one threshold for the second network node. There may again be one threshold for transmission of data and one threshold for transmission of control information.
  • the threshold may be defined as a percentage of the maximum transmission power or it may be defined as a percentage of the required
  • the required transmission power may be determined by calculating a power control loop according to Expression (1 ) twice, once for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and once for the second uplink transmission to the second network node.
  • Another example is receiving control information from the first network node and/or the second network node indicating a required respective transmission power.
  • the predetermined rule indicates to the UE to scale at least the first uplink transmission power based on a first scaling factor and then transmitting the first and the second uplink transmission at the scaled transmission power.
  • the UE In case the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power, then the UE is not able to transmit both the first and the second uplink transmission at the respective first and second uplink transmission power.
  • the predetermined rule may then indicate to the UE to scale e.g. the first uplink transmission power based on a first scaling factor. This means that the first uplink transmission power is reduced and hence the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power may possibly no longer exceed the maximum transmission power. If so, the UE may transmit the first uplink transmission at the scaled first uplink transmission power and the second uplink transmission at the determined second uplink transmission power.
  • the UE may scale both the first and the second transmission power based on the first scaling power in order to reduce the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power so that the sum possibly no longer exceeds the maximum transmission power.
  • the first scaling factor may indicate to the UE to scale the uplink transmission power for the transmission comprising data and not to scale the uplink transmission power for the transmission comprising control information.
  • the predetermined rule may indicate to the UE to scale the second uplink transmission power based on a second scaling factor and then transmitting the first uplink transmission at the scaled first uplink transmission power and transmitting the second uplink transmission at the scaled second uplink
  • the scaling factors may be associated with the first and the second network node respectively and signalled to the UE as the UE becomes connected to or associated with the first and the second network node.
  • the first and the second scaling factors may be associated with the type of the first and the second network node respectively so that a macro network node is always associated with e.g. the first scaling factor and a low power network node is always associated with e.g. the second scaling factor.
  • the first scaling factor may e.g. be associated with uplink transmissions comprising control information and the second scaling factor may e.g. be associated with uplink transmissions comprising data.
  • the method further comprises receiving, from the first and the second network node, a respective first and second maximum tolerance value indicating a respective maximum difference between an expected transmission power and an actual transmission power.
  • the first and the second network node may indicate to the UE an expected transmission power. In an example, this corresponds to the UE determining 120 the respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission. In another example, the UE may determine the respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission e.g. by means of Expression (1 ) as described above. In either case, the UE receives a respective first and second maximum tolerance value from the first and the second network node respectively. These values indicate to the UE how much the UE may deviate from an expected first and an expected second uplink transmission power. In other words, the values indicates how much the UE may reduce the first and the second uplink
  • the first and second maximum tolerance value may be e.g. a percentage of the expected first and second uplink transmission power.
  • the first and second maximum tolerance value is 15% and 25% respectively, meaning that the UE may reduce the first uplink transmission power with maximum 15% of the expected first uplink transmission power and reduce the second unlink transmission power with maximum 25% of the expected second uplink transmission power.
  • the method further comprises determining if the first and the second uplink transmission can be performed without exceeding the first or second maximum tolerance value and the maximum transmission power, and if not, transmitting the transmission having the highest priority at a transmission power indicated by the maximum tolerance value for that transmission.
  • the UE may look at a first priority associated with the first uplink transmission and a second priority associated with the second uplink transmission. The UE may then transmit the transmission having the highest priority at the transmission power indicated by the maximum tolerance value for that transmission, meaning that the UE transmits that uplink transmission at a transmission power corresponding to the expected transmission power reduced by the maximum tolerance value for that
  • the UE may then either refrain from transmitting the other uplink transmission or transmit the other uplink transmission at a transmission power corresponding to the maximum transmission power minus the transmission power of the uplink transmission having the highest priority.
  • the predetermined rule may further indicate to the UE to adapt modulation and/or coding of at least one of the first and the second uplink transmission due to reduced uplink transmission power, the method further comprising the UE signalling to the first and/or second network node the modulation and/or coding to be used and transmitting the first and/or the second uplink transmissions at the adapted modulation and/or coding.
  • the UE may adapt modulation and/or coding of at least one of the first and the second uplink transmission.
  • the first and the second network node may be expecting a certain modulation and/or coding of at least one of the first and the second uplink transmission respectively.
  • the UE signals to the first and/or second network node informing it/them about the modulation and/or coding to be used and transmitting the first and/or the second uplink transmissions.
  • a lower modulation level and/or coding rate may enable a receiver to successfully receive the uplink transmission.
  • the reduced uplink transmission power may possibly result in a higher bit error rate at the receiver.
  • a lower modulation level and/or coding rate may enable the receiver to successfully receive the uplink transmission by error correction.
  • the method may further comprise calculating a Power Headroom Reporting, PHR, based on whether simultaneous transmission of the first uplink transmission to the first network node and the second uplink transmission to the second network node is required or not.
  • Power headroom indicates how much transmission power left for the UE to use in addition to the power being used by a current transmission. Power headroom may be described by Expression (2):
  • the Power Headroom value is positive (+), it indicates that the UE still has some space under the maximum power, implying that the UE may transmit more data if allowed. If the Power Headroom value is negative (-), the Power Headroom value indicates that the UE is already transmitting at a power greater than what the UE is allowed to transmit.
  • the method 200 may further comprise calculating a first PHR for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second PHR for the second uplink transmission to the second network node and reporting the first PHR to the first network node and the second PHR to the second network node.
  • the UE may assume no PUCCH/PUSCH transmission for other network node.
  • the UE has already determined whether the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power or not. Hence the UE calculates the PHR for the first uplink transmission and the PHR for the second uplink transmission separately.
  • the method may further comprise calculating one PHR for both the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission and reporting the one calculated PHR to both the first network node and the second network node.
  • the UE in this case calculates one PHR for both the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission.
  • one PHR calculation takes into account all the PUCCH/PUSCH transmission in the same sub-frame, and other PHR calculation(s) may only consider the PUCCH/PUSCH transmission for the envisioned network node. This will indicate how much uplink transmission power is left for the UE to use in addition to the uplink transmission power being used by the first and the second uplink
  • the UE may then report the PHR to both the first network node and the second network node, thereby informing both of them if there is any uplink transmission power left or not, and if there is transmission power left, the PHR indicates how much.
  • the first and the second network node may then possibly adapt any grant for a subsequent uplink transmission based on the received PHR.
  • the PHR indicates that the UE is transmitting at, or close to, the maximum transmission power
  • one of the network nodes may grant less uplink data transmission to itself in order to lower the power consumption of the UE and ascertain that control information may be transmitted from the UE at a required transmission power.
  • Embodiments herein also relate to a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode.
  • the UE has the same technical features, objects and advantages as the method performed by the UE.
  • the UE will only be described in brief in order to avoid unnecessary repetition.
  • Figure 3 is a block diagram of a UE adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode, according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 3 illustrates the UE 300 comprising a determining unit 302 adapted for determining to perform a first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second uplink transmission to the second network node, the uplink transmissions to be performed simultaneously, and for determining a respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission.
  • the UE 300 also comprises a transmitting unit 303 adapted for transmitting the first and the second uplink transmissions at the first and the second uplink transmission power respectively when the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power is below a maximum transmission power.
  • the UE has the same possible advantages as the method performed by the UE.
  • One possible advantage is that a power limited UE may be enabled to control and share its transmission power between simultaneous transmissions on the same carrier, and also on separate carriers.
  • the UE 300 may further comprise a prioritisation unit 304, wherein if the sum of the first and the second uplink transmission power exceeds the maximum transmission power, the prioritising unit 304 is adapted to prioritise between the first and the second uplink transmission according to a predetermined rule.
  • the predetermined rule may indicate to the UE to prioritise the first or the second uplink transmission based on a link quality between the UE and the first and the second network node respectively.
  • the first uplink transmission comprises control information and the second uplink transmission comprises data, wherein the predetermined rule indicates to the UE to prioritise the uplink transmission comprising control information by transmitting the first uplink transmission at the first uplink transmission power.
  • the transmitting unit 303 may further be adapted for transmitting the second uplink transmission at a transmission power of the maximum transmission power minus the first uplink transmission power.
  • the transmitting unit 303 may further be adapted for refraining from transmitting the second uplink transmission if the transmission power of the maximum transmission power minus the first uplink transmission power is below a first predefined threshold.
  • the predetermined rule may indicate to the UE to scale at least the first uplink transmission power based on a first scaling factor and then transmitting the first and the second uplink transmission at the scaled transmission power.
  • the predetermined rule may indicate to the UE to scale the second uplink transmission power based on a second scaling factor, wherein the transmitting unit 303 is adapted for transmitting the first uplink transmission at the scaled first uplink transmission power and transmitting the second uplink transmission at the scaled second uplink transmission power.
  • the UE 300 may further comprise a receiving unit 205 adapted for receiving, from the first and the second network node, a respective first and second maximum tolerance value indicating a respective maximum difference between an expected transmission power and an actual transmission power.
  • the determining unit 302 may further be adapted for determining if the first and the second uplink transmission can be performed without exceeding the first or second maximum tolerance value and the maximum transmission power, and if not, the transmitting unit 303 is adapted for transmitting the transmission having the highest priority at a transmission power indicated by the maximum tolerance value for that transmission.
  • the predetermined rule may indicate to the UE to adapt modulation and/or coding of at least one of the first and the second uplink transmission due to reduced uplink transmission power, wherein the transmitting unit 303 further is adapted for signalling to the first and/or second network node the modulation and/or coding to be used and transmitting the first and/or the second uplink transmissions at the adapted modulation and/or coding.
  • the UE 300 may further comprise a calculating unit 305 adapted for calculating a PHR based on whether simultaneous transmission of the first uplink transmission to the first network node and the second uplink transmission to the second network node is required or not.
  • the calculating unit 305 further is adapted for calculating a first PHR for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second PHR for the second uplink transmission to the second network node and the transmitting unit 303 is adapted for reporting the first PHR to the first network node and the second PHR to the second network node.
  • the calculating unit 305 further is adapted for calculating one PHR for both the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission and transmitting unit 303 is adapted for reporting the one calculated PHR to both the first network node and the second network node.
  • Figure 4a is a block diagram of a UE 400 adapted for power control of uplink transmissions, the UE being connected in dual connectivity mode according to an exemplifying embodiment.
  • Figure 4a illustrates portions of an example telecommunications network, and particularly two network nodes, e.g., the first network node 430 and the second network node 440.
  • the first network node and second network node may or may not be members of a same radio access network.
  • the first network node and the second network node may be base station nodes.
  • the first network node and the second network node may be a base station node or other type of node, such as an RNC node, for example.
  • Figure 4a further also shows a UE 400 which communicates over a radio or air interface (indicated by the dotted-dashed line) with the two network nodes 430 and 440.
  • the UE 400 comprises a communications interface 410 configured to facilitate communications over the radio interface between the UE and the network nodes, including dual connectivity wireless communications utilising a radio frame structure. In the dual connectivity wireless communications transmissions occur essentially concurrently between the UE and the plural network nodes.
  • the UE also comprises a processor 420, also known as a power control processor.
  • the power control processor 420 is configured to handle both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions which are scheduled in the radio frame structure.
  • UL uplink
  • DL downlink
  • the radio frame structure may be described, at least in part, with reference to Fig. 1 d and/or Fig. 1 e.
  • the organisation of the frame structure may be specified by one or more network nodes and expressed in one or more control channels of the radio frame, as previously explained.
  • the UE receives signals and data in downlink (DL) transmissions of the frame structure and transmits appropriate signals and data in uplink (UL) transmissions of the frame structure, and does so for both network nodes when participating in dual connectivity operations.
  • the power control processor is configured to execute plural uplink (UL) power control loops or processes when engaging in the dual connectivity wireless communications.
  • UL uplink
  • the dual connected UE of figure 4a runs at least two different power control loops at the same time.
  • a first power control loop 421 corresponds to one node (e.g., the first network node of figure 4a), while a second power control loop 422 corresponds to another node (e.g., the second network node of figure 4a).
  • the UE performs two different processes related to the UL transmission power control method as shown in Expression (1 ).
  • the UE 400 may have to transmit to more than one eNodeB/node.
  • the power control processor 420 may be configured to prioritise execution of the two UL power control processes or loops 421 and 422, and as such may comprise a prioritiser function 423 or unit as shown in figure 4b.
  • the prioritiser 423 may implement a
  • prioritisation routine configured to allocate the UL power between the two nodes. For instance if the UE has control information to transmit to the first network node and data to transmit to the second network node, the prioritiser 423 may prioritise the control information transmission and allocate the required power to the first network node while the remaining power is used for data transmission to the second network node. This prioritisation scheme is reasonable as the second node can benefit from HARQ feedback.
  • a point (e.g. eNodeB) associated with DL data transmissions may request an aperiodic CSI and HARQ feedback at the same time as a PUSCH transmission to the UL point (e.g. eNodeB).
  • the UE is configured (or it is part of a standard) a prioritisation order between a plurality of transmissions and each transmission is categorised by the particular node and/or the carried information (e.g., L1 control or data).
  • An idea is to prioritise transmissions based on the information category, e.g. control information like HARQ feedback should have higher priority over normal data transmissions.
  • transmissions from a UE may include L1 control transmissions to a first node (e.g., the first network node): L1 control transmissions to a second node (e.g., the second network node); data to the first node; and, data to the second node.
  • a first node e.g., the first network node
  • L1 control transmissions to a second node e.g., the second network node
  • the priority order for these four different types of transmissions may be in the order in which they are listed above (the L1 control transmissions to the first node having the highest priority, the L1 control transmissions to a second node having the next highest priority, and so forth).
  • the lowest priority transmissions may be dropped, until the remaining
  • transmissions can be supported with the available transmission power budget.
  • all transmissions (in order of priority) that fit in a transmission power budget are transmitted at an intended power (e.g., according to the separate power control loops).
  • the transmissions that do not fit the power budget are (in order of priority) allocated a lower (than nominal) transmission power (e.g., the remaining Tx power budget). Transmissions with a further lower priority are not transmitted (i.e., transmitted at zero power).
  • the benefit of this embodiment is that the full Tx power budget of the UE is utilized, and allocated to the most prioritised transmissions.
  • the remaining Tx power budget is allocated to at least a first of the remaining transmissions that fits (at nominal Tx power, e.g., according to an associated power control loop) within the remaining Tx power budget.
  • the benefit of this embodiment is that the UE power budget is effectively utilised and transmissions that can be transmitted at expected nominal Tx power are prioritised, which consequently can be expected to be decoded at an eNodeB at the intended probability of error (e.g., intended Block Error Rate, BLER).
  • control information to an anchor node may be prioritised if the total required power for the control information exceeds the maximum UE output power.
  • the power may be set to zero if the remaining power for PUSCH transmission falls below a certain pre-defined threshold.
  • the power control processor of figure 4c comprises a power scaling unit 424.
  • the scaling factor(s) for the plurality of transmissions as utilised by the scaling unit 424 may be the same without indication from the eNB or UE.
  • the ratio of the scaling factor(s) could be signalled to the UE 400 for use by the scaling unit 424.
  • Such signalling may be, for example, higher layer signalling.
  • “higher layer signalling” includes any signalling that is out-of-band of the radio frame structure, e.g., that is transmitted or received outside of the radio frame structure.
  • “higher layer signalling” may include RRC signalling, for example.
  • the UE 400 allocates power to a plurality of transmissions, each transmission associated with a particular node and/or information category (e.g., L1 control or data).
  • Each of the plurality of transmissions may be further associated with a scaling factor. If the total transmit power budget is exceeded by the allocated transmissions, the Tx power of the respective transmissions are scaled down (backed off) according to the associated scaling factor, as to meet the available Tx power budget.
  • the UE may set the transmit power to zero for this link and transmit with full power to the other node.
  • the power scaling of transmissions is not applied to high priority transmissions, but only to less prioritised transmissions.
  • L1 control transmissions may be allocated a nominal transmission power.
  • the remaining Tx power budget may then be shared by less prioritised data transmissions in accordance with the associated scaling factors.
  • This example has the advantage that important transmissions, such as L1 control, may be transmitted at full nominal Tx power and thereby not violate target probability of error for these channels, while allowing best effort data to utilize the remaining Tx power budget.
  • the modulation and coding of a transmission may be adapted by the UE 400 to counteract a Tx power back off over a nominal Tx power (which may have been assumed by an eNodeB in determining an associated scheduling grant).
  • the power control processor of figure 4d comprises a modulation/coding adaptation unit 425.
  • the UE signals to an eNodeB/node, explicitly or implicitly, which modulation and coding was used for the transmission.
  • a maximum tolerance or override of power difference between the scaled power and the expected power is signalled for each network node.
  • the scaling unit 424 of the power control processor 420 of figure 4e comprises an override unit 426.
  • the expected power is calculated only taking into account the transmission for that network node (or
  • the scaled power may be based on other examples. In case the actual difference between the scaled power and the expected power is larger than the signalled maximum tolerance for one network node, when the override feature is invoked the transmitted power for that network node cannot be further scaled. In case not all the actual difference between scaled power and the expected power of each network node can be guaranteed within the given tolerance (s), the power difference between the scaled power and the expected power of higher priority transmission shall be prioritised and guaranteed within the given tolerance.
  • the UE may, in addition to max Tx power budget, be limited by pre-defined out-of-band emission limits.
  • any of the above examples or embodiments are applied to respect the pre-defined out-of-band emission limits in addition to the max Tx power budget. For example, out of a plurality of transmissions, the lowest priority transmissions are dropped, until the remaining transmissions can be supported with the available transmission power budget and the out-of-band emission limits.
  • Figure 4f illustrates another example in which the power control processor 420 further comprises a power headroom report generator 427.
  • the power headroom report generator 427 may be configured in various ways, as explained by the nature of the reports and other descriptions provided herein.
  • the Power Headroom Reporting, PHR may be calculated based on whether a simultaneous transmission to the two eNodeBs is required or not.
  • multiple PHRs may be reported.
  • Each network node may be provided with one PHR.
  • the UE may assume no PUCCH/PUSCH transmission for other network nodes.
  • multiple PHRs may be reported.
  • Each network node may be provided with one PHR.
  • one PHR calculation may take into account all the PUCCH/PUSCH transmission in the same sub-frame, and other PHR calculation(s) may only consider the
  • one PHR may be reported.
  • the PUCCH/PUSCH transmission of all the network nodes shall be taken into account.
  • the transmission status of other network nodes may be reported as well.
  • the transmission status report may include: the presence of PUSCH for other network nodes, the number of resource allocation of PUSCH of other network nodes, the presence of PUCCH for other network nodes, etc.
  • the UE 400 may make the decision to prioritise one of the transmissions by allocating the needed power based on, for example, the link quality to the different eNodeBs or network nodes.
  • terminal or “UE” or “user equipment (UE)” may be a mobile station such as a mobile telephone or “cellular” telephone or a laptop with wireless capability, e.g., mobile termination, and thus may be, for example, a portable, pocket, hand-held, computer-included, or car-mounted mobile device which communicates voice and/or data via a RAN.
  • a terminal or UE may be a fixed terminal which communicates voice and/or data via a RAN.
  • various elements or units which are bounded or enclosed by broken lines, such as the processors described herein may be realised by a machine platform.
  • machine platform is a way of describing how the functional units may be implemented or realised by machine.
  • the machine platform can take any of several forms, such as (for example) electronic circuitry in the form of a computer implementation platform or a hardware circuit platform.
  • a computer implementation of the machine platform may be realised by or implemented as one or more computer processors or controllers as those terms are herein expansively defined, and which may execute instructions stored on non-transient computer-readable storage media. In such a computer
  • the machine platform may comprise, in addition to a processor(s), a memory section (which in turn can comprise random access memory; read only memory; an application memory (a non-transitory computer readable medium which stores, e.g., coded non instructions which can be executed by the processor to perform acts described herein); and any other memory such as cache memory, for example).
  • a hardware circuit e.g., an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC, wherein circuit elements are structured and operated to perform the various acts described herein.
  • the UE 300 is also illustrated comprising a receiving arrangement 31 1 and a transmitting arrangement 312.
  • the receiving arrangement 31 1 may comprise more than one receiving arrangement.
  • the receiving arrangement may be connected to both a wire and an antenna, by means of which the UE 300 is enabled to communicate with other nodes and/or entities in the wireless communication network.
  • the transmitting arrangement 312 may comprise more than one transmitting arrangement, which in turn are connected to both a wire and an antenna, by means of which the UE 300 is enabled to communicate with other nodes and/or entities in the wireless communication network.
  • the UE 300 further comprises a memory 301 for storing data.
  • the UE 300 is illustrated comprising a control or processing unit 306 which in turn is connected to the different units 302-305. It shall be pointed out that this is merely an illustrative example and the UE 300 may comprise more, less or other units or modules which execute the functions of the UE 300 in the same manner as the units illustrated in figure 3.
  • figure 3 merely illustrates various functional units in the UE 300 in a logical sense. The functions in practice may be
  • one embodiment includes a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by the control or processing unit 306 for executing the method steps in the UE 300.
  • the instructions executable by the computing system and stored on the computer-readable medium perform the method steps of the UE 300 as set forth in the claims.
  • Figure 5 schematically shows an embodiment of a UE 500.
  • a processing unit 506 e.g. with a DSP (Digital Signal Processor).
  • the processing unit 506 may be a single unit or a plurality of units to perform different actions of procedures described herein.
  • the UE 500 may also comprise an input unit 502 for receiving signals from other entities, and an output unit 504 for providing signal(s) to other entities.
  • the input unit and the output unit may be arranged as an integrated entity or as illustrated in the example of figure 3, as one or more interfaces 31 1/312.
  • the UE 500 comprises at least one computer program product 508 in the form of a non-volatile memory, e.g. an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), a flash memory and a hard drive.
  • the computer program product 508 comprises a computer program 510, which comprises code means, which when executed in the processing unit 506 in the UE 500 causes the UE 500 to perform the actions e.g. of the procedure described earlier in conjunction with figure 2a.
  • the computer program 510 may be configured as a computer program code structured in computer program modules 510a-510e.
  • the code means in the computer program of the UE 500 comprises a determining unit, or module, for determining to perform a first uplink transmission to the first network node and a second uplink transmission to the second network node, the uplink transmissions to be performed simultaneously; and for determining a respective first and second uplink transmission power for the first and the second uplink transmission.
  • the computer program further comprises a transmitting unit, or module, for transmitting the first and the second uplink transmissions at the first and the second uplink transmission power respectively when the sum of the first and second uplink transmission power is below a maximum transmission power.
  • the computer program modules could essentially perform the actions of the flow illustrated in figure 2a, to emulate the UE 500.
  • the different computer program modules when executed in the processing unit 506, they may correspond to the units 320-350 of figure 3.
  • code means in the embodiments disclosed above in conjunction with figure 3 are implemented as computer program modules which when executed in the processing unit causes the UE to perform the actions described above in the conjunction with figure mentioned above, at least one of the code means may in alternative embodiments be implemented at least partly as hardware circuits.
  • the processor may be a single CPU (Central processing unit), but could also comprise two or more processing units.
  • the processor may include general purpose microprocessors; instruction set processors and/or related chips sets and/or special purpose microprocessors such as ASICs
  • the processor may also comprise board memory for caching purposes.
  • the computer program may be carried by a computer program product connected to the processor.
  • the computer program product may comprise a computer readable medium on which the computer program is stored.
  • the computer program product may be a flash memory, a RAM (Random-access memory) ROM (Read-Only Memory) or an EEPROM, and the computer program modules described above could in alternative embodiments be distributed on different computer program products in the form of memories within the UE.

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L'invention concerne un équipement utilisateur et un procédé réalisé par l'UE pour la régulation de puissance de transmissions de liaison montante, lorsque l'UE est connecté en mode double connectivité à au moins un premier nœud de réseau et à un second nœud du réseau. Le procédé consiste à déterminer (210) pour effectuer une première transmission de liaison montante vers le premier nœud de réseau et une deuxième transmission de liaison montante vers le second nœud de réseau, les transmissions de liaison montante à exécuter simultanément. Le procédé consiste également à déterminer (220) une première et une deuxième puissance de transmission de liaison montante respectives pour la première et la deuxième transmission de liaison montante ; et à transmettre (240) la première et la deuxième transmission de liaison montante à la première et à la deuxième puissance de transmission de liaison montante respectivement lorsque la somme de la première et de la deuxième puissance de transmission de liaison montante est inférieure à une puissance de transmission maximale.
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